Drive Me Out of My Mind

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Drive Me Out of My Mind is a coming-of-age story of wildness and wandering set primarily in the Upper Peninsula of Michiganaits abandoned iron mines, desperate small towns, and heart-breaking bars. Itas the memoir of a boy raised by lawless and itinerant women and how he was culturedaand corruptedaby their hard-living, hard-drinking, and hard-loving ways. Given this lot in life, Faries tells how one boy was hurt into becoming a poet at the ripe age of twoato imagine another world other than the daily madness in front of himaa world where violent stalkers hovered over the hospital beds of women as they gave birth, where father figures also copulated with Gramma, where a worn Barbie doll was a main source of comfort, and where home meant 24 anonymous hovels in 10 years.Here we all were in a cupped hand like failed action figures and Barbies that
nobody wanted to buy. Nobody every wanted ... Behind him from the street the
angelic headlight rays of a red 1964 Plymouth Fury cast a golden aura on his
skinny frame. I was sure Aunt ... I woke up in the back of a 1960 Ford Falcon
station wagon sleeping on top of twelve cases of beer with Barbie at my side.
Mother turned theanbsp;...

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Drive Me Out of My Mind

Author

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Chad Faries

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Emergency Press - 2013-10-18

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